Stratford Roadworks This Week: M42 Nights and Manor Road

The M42 southbound closes overnight between junction 4 at Shirley and junction 3A, where it meets the M40. National Highways has booked it from 9pm to 6am on the nights of Monday 9 to Thursday 12 November, for maintenance. It is the motorway route between Birmingham and Stratford.

In Stratford itself, Manor Road closes on Friday 13 November so a telegraph pole can be replaced. The county made the order on 6 November.

The A429 Wellesbourne bypass night closures were due to finish on Friday 6 November. The county’s scheme notice still gives that date. Its programme had not marked the work completed when we checked on 7 November.

Updated 7 November: National Highways’ report for 6 to 12 November replaces last week’s M42 closures near Birmingham Airport with new overnight closures between junctions 4 and 3A, and junctions 6 and 8. The town council has published the Christmas market road closures for 27 to 29 November and 4 to 6 December. The Darlingscott Road and Fenny Compton objection periods closed on 6 November. The county’s Stratford Observer orders for 6 November were not yet on the Public Notice Portal, so closures from that bundle are not on this page yet.

What is shut right now

• Grafton Lane, Bidford-on-Avon. Closed for water main replacement to an anticipated 1 March 2027. The diversion is Grafton Lane, Wixford Road, Evesham Road and Stratford Road.
• Bridge Street, Kineton. Closed to an anticipated 10 November for Severn Trent repairs to the waste water network. The diversion is Warwick Road, Banbury Street and Manor Lane.
• Kineton Road, Wellesbourne. Closed from about No 42 to Glebe House to an anticipated 2 December for water mains renewal. The diversion runs by Friz Hill, Bowshot Island, the Fosse Way, Banbury Road, Newbold Road and Ashorne Hill Road.
• Watery Lane, Sherbourne (Warwick district). Closed for 20 metres from Barford Road to an anticipated 23 November for mains renewal, with a 30mph limit on Barford Road.
• Henley Road, Preston Bagot. Severn Trent water mains renewal to an anticipated 13 December.
• Grange Road and Icknield Street, Bidford-on-Avon. A new water main, with the Icknield Street one-way suspended and no diversion available, to an anticipated 8 January 2027.
• D5401 Collins Way, Alcester. Footway resurfacing was due to end on 23 October, according to the county’s scheme notice. The forward programme, checked on 7 November, still marks it ongoing.
• B4086 Tiddington Road, the main road east out of Stratford, is still marked ongoing as a minor carriageway scheme, with no dates attached.
• Public footpaths and bridleways: SD146B at Snitterfield has been closed since 10 October because of the dangerous condition of a bridge, for up to six months, with an alternative by footpaths SD146a and SD146 and bridleway SD145. AL110 at Morton Bagot (bridge condition, from 20 August), SM191 at Upper Lighthorne and SM175A at Radway (both from 15 August) remain closed for up to six months each. Bridleway W25A at Bushwood has been shut since 29 September because of a dangerous bridge, with no alternative route.
• The canal towpath between Bishopton Lane (bridge 63) and Timothy Road (bridge 64), the Park and Stride walk from the park and ride, is still closed. The Canal and River Trust’s notice, updated 25 September, says it stays shut until the council and the neighbouring landowner settle who repairs the land, with the next review due by 31 March 2027.

Due to have finished, not confirmed

These jobs have passed their anticipated end date. No source published since says they have finished or been extended, so we cannot say either way:

• A429 Wellesbourne Bypass, Warwick Road and Red Hill, and the B4086 at Wellesbourne, weeknight resurfacing, due to end 6 November. The county’s programme still lists the phases by start date rather than “Completed”.
• Church Lane, Shottery, surface water and foul sewer connections from Campbell Close, due to end 7 November.
• Snitterfield Lane, Snitterfield, telegraph pole renewal, 6 November.
• Tavern Lane, Stratford-upon-Avon, a Cadent gas connection between Nos 10 and 14, due to end 22 October.
• Lighthorne Road, Kineton, new ducting, due to end 23 October.
• Farnborough Road, Warmington, bridge expansion joints, with an anticipated completion of 19 October.
• C41 Featherbed Lane, Wilmcote, one day of patching on Friday 16 October. The county programme still shows the date rather than “Completed”.
• B439 Bordon Hill and Evesham Road resurfacing (SMU/0103), due to end on 10 October, is still marked ongoing. The separate Dodwell footway scheme (SMU/1106) is completed.
• Gaydon Road, Gaydon, bridge expansion joint, Pimple Lane to Long Lane, due to end 26 October.
• Wasperton Road, Wasperton, boundary box and water meter, due to end 26 October.

Walton Park Road at Wellesbourne passed its anticipated completion date on 14 September, and nothing published since confirms it has reopened.

The M40, M42 and A46 this week, night by night

National Highways’ seven-day closure report for Friday 6 to Thursday 12 November lists these within reach of Stratford:

• Monday 9 to Thursday 12 November, 9pm to 6am: the M42 southbound from junction 4 to junction 3A, every night, for maintenance. Junction 3A is the M40 interchange.
• Monday 9 to Thursday 12 November, 9pm to 6am: the M42 northbound from junction 6 to junction 8, and the link from the M42 northbound at junction 7 to the M6 northbound, for HS2.
• Sunday 8 November, 9pm to 6am: the M42 northbound entry slip at junction 10, Tamworth.
• Monday 9 to Thursday 12 November, 8pm to 6am: the A46 northbound from Binley to M69 junction 2, east of Coventry.

The report gives the diversions only as “via National Highways and local authority network”.

The southbound M42 closure matters most here. From Birmingham, the usual motorway route to Stratford is the M42 south to the M40 and then junction 15 or 16. On those four nights the M42 is shut between Shirley and the M40, so plan another way after 9pm.

The report shows no closure on the M40 at junctions 15 or 16, and none on the A46 between Stratford and Alcester, in the week to 12 November. The M40 work it lists is at junctions 2 and 4, near Beaconsfield and High Wycombe.

The A429 at Wellesbourne: due to have finished

The county made the order for this work in its bundle dated 16 October. It covered the A429 Warwick Road, Wellesbourne Bypass and Red Hill, and the B4086 Stratford Road and Charlecote Road, from the C212 Barford Road at Charlecote to the Anderton Avenue and Delaney Avenue roundabout. Closures ran from 8pm to 6am on weeknights from Monday 19 October, with a temporary 40mph limit on parts of the A429, the B4086 and Charlecote Road.

The made order gave an anticipated completion of 3 November. The county’s scheme notice and its letter to residents said 6 November, weather permitting, and the notice still said so on 7 November.

One more stretch is still waiting. The programme lists a fifth scheme on A429 Warwick Road at Wellesbourne (SMU/0310) as TBA, with no date.

Coming in the next fortnight

Most of these are weekday daytime jobs. The dates are the anticipated completion in each order rather than the legal ceiling.

Warwickshire writes most temporary orders to last up to 18 months, even when the job takes a day. That wording is a legal ceiling, not a forecast. Read the anticipated completion date instead.

The Fosse Way at Chesterton is a night job. The county’s scheme notice gives 16 to 19 November, 8pm to 6am, under a road closure.

The Christmas markets close the town centre for two weekends

Stratford-on-Avon District Council has made two orders for the Stratford Christmas Markets, published by the town council. Each closes these streets:

• Bridge Street, from High Street and Union Street to Waterside
• High Street
• Henley Street
• Meer Street
• Sheep Street
• Waterside

The closures run from 6pm on the Friday to 11.59pm, then from midnight to 11.59pm on the Saturday and Sunday:

• Road Closure No. 57: Friday 27 to Sunday 29 November
• Road Closure No. 58: Friday 4 to Sunday 6 December

The town council’s notice for the December weekend is labelled “04.11.2026 to 06.11.2026” in its web address and file name. The order itself says 4 to 6 December.

New yellow lines outside Stratford High School, from 2 November

The county has made Variation No. 13 to the district’s parking order. From Monday 2 November there is no waiting at any time on Alcester Road, from a point 25 metres east of the entrance to Stratford High School, westwards for 54 metres. Enquiries go to pmc@warwickshire.gov.uk under the heading “Stratford V13”.

Earlier yellow lines, in force since 5 October

The county has made Variation No. 10 to the district’s parking order. It came into force on Monday 5 October. It adds no waiting at any time on short lengths of these Stratford streets:

• Bull Street, east side, 5 metres from 87 metres north of College Lane
• Manor Road, east side, 104 metres from a point 135 metres south of Loxley Road
• Payton Street, north side, 7 metres from 44 metres west of Warwick Road
• Shottery, north side, 25 metres west from Tavern Lane
• Tavern Lane, west side, 17 metres north from Shottery

The same order changes waiting on Castle Road and Riverside at Studley, Henley Street at Alcester, and several streets in Southam and Shipston-on-Stour. The proposed no waiting on Sandfield Road, Stratford was deferred for reconsultation. Enquiries go to pmc@warwickshire.gov.uk under the heading “Stratford V10”.

Where to check what is shut today

• County roads: Warwickshire County Council publishes a live map of works and closures at warwickshire.gov.uk/roadworksmap. Zoom in rather than searching. The same council page carries an email alert sign-up for works near an address you choose.
• The A46 and M40: these are National Highways roads, so county listings do not cover them. Check National Highways travel updates.
• Event closures in town: Stratford-upon-Avon Town Council posts individual closure notices as they are made, with the order attached. The district council’s list of road closures carries only the recurring markets.
• Forward resurfacing: the county’s Stratford-on-Avon future works programme lists carriageway and footway schemes with dates, often months ahead. It runs to three pages, and pages two and three carry the residential streets.

Closures already in the diary

These are dated and published, not forecasts. The list starts after the fortnight table above.

The switch-on closes the town centre for most of the day. The town council’s notice, published 14 October, shuts these streets from 4am to 10pm on Saturday 14 November:

• Bridge Street, from High Street and Union Street to Waterside
• Union Street
• Henley Street
• Meer Street
• Wood Street
• High Street

Watery Lane at Sherbourne now has two orders. The 9 October bundle made one for Watery Lane and Moat Green from 26 October to 18 November. The 16 October bundle makes a second, closing 20 metres of Watery Lane from Barford Road from 4 to 23 November. Neither says whether the second replaces the first. Sherbourne is in Warwick district, but the closures sit on the way from Stratford to Warwick.

Remembrance Sunday closes Waterside on an Upmarket day. The town council’s notice shuts Waterside from Sheep Street to Southern Lane from 7am to midday on 8 November. Bull Street closes between Chestnut Walk and Narrow Lane. The same Sunday is on the district’s list as an Upmarket date, 9am to 6pm.

All three pages of the county’s programme were reread on 7 November. Two schemes still have no date at all:

• a second stretch of the A429 Warwick Road at Wellesbourne (SMU/0310)
• Moreton Morrell Lane at Lighthorne

Three dates moved since our last check. Welsh Road at Priors Marston went from 7 December to 6 January 2027, Atherstone Road at Preston on Stour from 8 December to 18 January 2027, and Magdalen Close at Lower Quinton from 10 to 21 December.

Sundays in the town centre

Waterside is closed from 9am to 6pm most Sundays between Bridge Street and Sheep Street for the Waterside Upmarket. The district’s list carries November dates on the 8th, 15th and 22nd.

Bidford-on-Avon’s High Street closes on the first Saturday of most months, 6.30am to 2pm, for the village market. The November market is on Saturday 7 November.

The routes that matter, and the bypass that does not exist yet

Stratford has no ring road. Through traffic between the A46 and the south of the district still funnels across Clopton Bridge, a fifteenth-century structure. That is not a quirk of history; it is a stated planning constraint.

The draft South Warwickshire Local Plan is blunt about why a bypass keeps coming up. Its Policy ID.4 justification states that “highway modelling has shown that there is insufficient capacity for further significant development south of Stratford-upon-Avon town and there are a number of capacity constraints on the highway network, including the historic Clopton Bridge.”

The policy protects land within an indicative corridor for a western bypass between the A3400 Shipston Road and the A46 at the Alcester Road end of town, crossing the B439 Evesham Road and joining Campden Road south of Clifford Chambers. It would also cross the Stratford Greenway at a height that keeps open the option of putting heavy rail back on it.

Two things to be clear about. The corridor is “an area of search only and does not fix the final alignment”, and the road is required to deliver the Long Marston Airfield new community and the 2,727-home allocation south-east of town, neither of which starts building before 2030. Nobody is driving on this in this decade.

The same plan safeguards land for five smaller strategic road schemes that would land sooner and closer to home:

• the A46 junction with the A422 Alcester Road at Wildmoor
• the A46 junction with the A3400 Birmingham Road at Bishopton
• roundabout and approach widening at Shipston Road and Seven Meadows Road
• widening at M40 junction 15
• Marraway, on the A46 at Warwick Road

It also marks an area of search for a second park and ride on the southern side of town near the Rosebird Centre, with 500 spaces.

What parking costs

Stratford-on-Avon District Council runs twelve car parks with more than 2,800 spaces in the town centre, all within a five-minute walk of the middle. Charges apply 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and almost all of them are card or app only, with no cash accepted.

The first hour is free at the Bridgeway multi-storey and nowhere else. It has 650 spaces, runs on number plate recognition with no ticket, and you pay on return at a machine. Under an hour, you simply drive out and the barrier lifts. The other main town-centre options are the Recreation Ground (378 spaces, Swans Nest Lane), Arden Street (240 spaces, eight electric vehicle bays) and the Windsor Street multi-storey (243 spaces, no lifts).

Since 11 May 2026 you can pay through the National Parking Platform, which means any of APCOA Connect, Caura, JustPark, PayByPhone or RingGo rather than one mandated app. Machines still work where they exist. Each provider sets its own fees, so check the signs.

The park and ride is the cheapest way in

Stratford Park and Ride is off Bishopton Lane by the A46 and A3400 Birmingham Road roundabout, postcode CV37 0RJ, with more than 700 spaces.

• Car park: £1 for the day if you arrive from 9.00am, or £3 before 8.59am. Overnight is £4 from 9.00am, £6 before.
• Bus: £2.50 adult single or return, £1.50 child, £4.00 group return for up to five people. About 10 to 12 minutes into town.
• Weekdays: buses leave the park and ride every 30 minutes from 9am to 2.30pm in term time, with three more, to 4pm, in school holidays. A handful of earlier journeys run from 7.18am. The district council’s page, updated 8 October, gives weekday hours of 7.18am to 2.30pm.
• Saturdays: every 15 minutes for most of the day, with the last bus from the park and ride at 5.45pm. Sundays: every 15 minutes from 10am, the last at 6.15pm.
• Drop-off is outside NatWest on Wood Street; pick-up is opposite, outside Cancer Research UK.
• Warwickshire concessionary bus pass holders travel free after 9am on weekdays and any time at weekends. Non-Warwickshire pass holders, after 9.30am.
• Height limit 2.1m. No motorhomes, caravans or camper vans at any time. Blue Badge holders park free but still pay bus fares.

Two people parking after 9am and taking the bus both ways costs £6 in total, against £9.30 for nine hours in a town car park. For a family of four using the group return, it is £5, which is less than a single adult ticket at most of the town’s paid attractions.

Check the return time on a weekday. In term time the last dedicated park and ride bus back from Wood Street leaves in mid-afternoon. Later weekday buses back, up to 7.35pm, are X21 journeys that the timetable lists with the service.

If you are heading for the railway station rather than the town centre, the park and ride car park ticket does not cover rail travel. Our page on trains from Stratford covers the services that actually run.

The Park and Stride walking route is still shut. The canal towpath between Bishopton Lane bridge 63 and Timothy Road bridge 64 has been closed since May 2022. The Canal and River Trust’s latest update, on 25 September, says it stays closed until the district council and the neighbouring landowner resolve who stabilises the land. The district council’s page no longer mentions the closure, but the Trust’s notice is the record. Walk along Timothy’s Bridge Road instead.

Frequently asked questions

Where can I check Stratford roadworks?

Warwickshire County Council’s live map at warwickshire.gov.uk/roadworksmap covers county roads. The A46 and M40 are National Highways roads and appear on their travel updates instead. Stratford-upon-Avon Town Council posts individual closure notices for the town as they are made.

What is closed in Stratford this week?

Bridge Street in Kineton is closed to 10 November, Kineton Road at Wellesbourne to 2 December, and Grafton Lane at Bidford-on-Avon until March 2027. Manor Road in Stratford closes on Friday 13 November. On the motorways, the M42 southbound is shut between junction 4 and junction 3A from 9pm to 6am on the nights of 9 to 12 November.

Is the M40 closed near Stratford?

Not at junctions 15 or 16 in the week to 12 November, according to National Highways’ report for 6 to 12 November. The closure to plan around is on the M42 southbound between junction 4 and junction 3A, where it meets the M40, overnight from 9 to 12 November.

When is the Wellesbourne bypass closed?

The weeknight closures, 8pm to 6am, began on Monday 19 October and were due to finish on 6 November, according to the county’s scheme notice. The county had not marked the work completed when we checked on 7 November. One more stretch of Warwick Road at Wellesbourne is on the county’s programme with no date yet.

Which roads close for the Christmas lights switch-on and markets?

Bridge Street, Union Street, Henley Street, Meer Street, Wood Street and High Street close from 4am to 10pm on Saturday 14 November for the switch-on, according to the town council’s notice. For the Christmas markets, Bridge Street, High Street, Henley Street, Meer Street, Sheep Street and Waterside close from 6pm on Friday 27 November to 11.59pm on Sunday 29 November, and again from 6pm on Friday 4 December to 11.59pm on Sunday 6 December.

How long is Grafton Lane in Bidford closed?

From 28 September 2026 to an anticipated 1 March 2027, for water main replacement. The signed diversion is Grafton Lane, Wixford Road, Evesham Road and Stratford Road.

Is there any free parking in Stratford town centre?

Only the first hour at the Bridgeway multi-storey car park. Every other council car park charges from the first hour, and charges apply 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Blue Badge holders park free at the pay and display car parks, and at Bridgeway only through Stratford ShopMobility.

How much is Stratford park and ride?

£1 to park for the day if you arrive from 9.00am (£3 before), plus £2.50 per adult for the bus, single or return. A group return for up to five people is £4.00 and a child is £1.50. On weekdays in term time the buses run every 30 minutes and stop in mid-afternoon.

Is Stratford getting a bypass?

Not soon. The draft South Warwickshire Local Plan safeguards a corridor for a western bypass between the A3400 Shipston Road and the A46 Alcester Road. The plan calls it “an area of search only”, the scheme “remains at an early stage”, and it is tied to development that does not start until the 2030s.

Which roads are being resurfaced near Stratford?

The Fosse Way at Chesterton is resurfaced at night from 16 to 19 November. Bridge Street in Stratford has footway resurfacing listed for 18 November, and High Street in Welford-on-Avon for 16 November. Salford Road at Bidford-on-Avon is dated 11 January 2027 and Southam Crescent at Lighthorne Heath 15 February. Footway work on Collins Way in Alcester was due to end on 23 October and is still marked ongoing.

Sources

• National Highways road closure report for 6 to 12 November 2026, downloaded 7 November. The M42 closures between junctions 4 and 3A and 6 and 8, the M42 junction 10 slip, and the A46 Binley closure are read from its seven daily sheets, which list nothing at M40 junctions 15 or 16.
• Stratford-upon-Avon Town Council’s notices for Manor Road, with the county’s site notice dated 6 November, and for the Christmas markets: Road Closure No. 57 and Road Closure No. 58, read as images.
• Warwickshire County Council’s scheme notices for the A429 Wellesbourne Bypass and the B4455 Fosse Way, Chesterton, and all three pages of its Stratford-on-Avon future works programme, rechecked 7 November.
• National Highways road closure report for 30 October to 5 November 2026, downloaded 31 October. The M42 weekend and overnight HS2 closures, the A46 Stoneleigh to Kenilworth and Tollbar slip closures and the M40 junction 9 slip closures are read from its seven daily sheets.
• Warwickshire County Council orders dated 30 October 2026: the Stratford Observer bundle, read as an image, for the made orders at Stratford Road, Hatton Rock, Oakham Road, Little Compton, Snitterfield Lane, Bridge Street, Kineton, Camp Lane, Beaudesert, Watery Lane and Barford Road, Sherbourne and Station Road, Shipston-on-Stour, the proposed orders at Yarningale Lane, Claverdon, Park Lane, Snitterfield, School Road, Salford Priors and Camp Lane, Ratley, and the parking Variation No. 13 Order for Alcester Road; and the Southam-area bundle for Mill Crescent, Napton Road at Stockton, Vicarage Lane at Priors Marston, the B4455 Fosse Way at Chesterton, Fells Lane at Napton and Harbury Road at Ladbroke.
• Warwickshire County Council’s A429 Wellesbourne Bypass scheme notice and D6588 Station Road, Shipston scheme notice, both rechecked 31 October.
• Warwickshire County Council temporary traffic orders published 23 October 2026: the Evesham Observer bundle for the proposed Manor Road, Stratford and Valanders Lane, Ilmington orders; the Redditch Standard notice for Coughton Lane; the Solihull Observer notice for Pig Trot Lane, Tanworth-in-Arden; and the Leamington Observer notice for Butt Hill, Napton, the proposed Knightcote Road, Bishops Itchington order and the Welsh Road East, Southam 30mph order.
• National Rail planned engineering works and Chiltern Railways’ timetable changes, checked 20 October. Neither lists work on the Stratford-upon-Avon line before November; the “Stratford” entries are Stratford in London.
• Stratford-upon-Avon Town Council’s Sheep Street notice of 14 October and its site notice, which repeat the county order’s dates, reason and diversion.
• Warwickshire County Council temporary traffic orders dated 16 October 2026, the Stratford Observer bundle, for the made orders at the A429 and B4086 at Wellesbourne, Tavern Lane, Middle Street at Tredington, Wasperton Road, Bridge Street at Kineton, Camp Lane at Beaudesert, Watery Lane and Barford Road at Sherbourne and Station Road at Shipston-on-Stour; the proposed orders at Stratford Road, Hatton Rock, Oakham Road, Little Compton and Snitterfield Lane; and the Darlingscott Road cycle track proposal and its 6 November deadline. It publishes as a scanned PDF and was read as an image.
• Warwickshire County Council temporary traffic orders dated 15 October 2026, for Gaydon Road at Gaydon, Southam Road at Priors Marston and the proposed Mill Crescent, Southam order.
• Warwickshire County Council’s scheme notice for D6588 Station Road, Shipston on Stour, published 14 October, with its resident letter, legal order and site notice.
• Warwickshire County Council temporary traffic orders, published 9 October 2026, the Stratford Observer bundle, for the made orders at Sheep Street, Church Lane, Kineton Road at Wellesbourne, Watery Lane and Moat Green at Sherbourne, Henley Road at Preston Bagot, Buckley Green Lane at Beaudesert, Dorsington Road, Featherbed Lane at Wilmcote, Lighthorne Road at Kineton, Longdon Road at Darlingscott, Wolverton Road at Snitterfield and footpath SD146B, and the proposed order at Grange Road and Icknield Street, Bidford-on-Avon. It publishes as a scanned PDF and was read as an image.
• Warwickshire County Council temporary traffic orders for Warmington and Edge Hill, published 8 October, for Farnborough Road and the proposed Quarry Road closure.
• Warwickshire County Council’s scheme notice for C41 Featherbed Lane, Wilmcote, published 9 October, with its resident letter and legal order.
• Warwickshire County Council temporary traffic orders, published 2 October 2026, the Stratford Observer bundle, for the Wellesbourne order and its 3 November anticipated completion, the Middle Street Tredington and Wasperton Road orders, the Stratford Road, Ettington build-out and its 23 October deadline, and the made parking Variation No. 10 Order.
• Warwickshire County Council’s scheme notices, rechecked today, for the A429 Wellesbourne Bypass, with its resident letter, legal order and site notice; the B4090 Alcester Heath Road near Sambourne; the B439 Bordon Hill and Evesham Road, Dodwell; D5401 Collins Way, Alcester; B4035 Campden Road, Shipston-on-Stour; and D5400 Alne Bank Road, Alcester.
• Stratford-on-Avon future works programmes, all three pages, reread today, for the dated schedules and the schemes still marked ongoing or TBA.
• Stratford-upon-Avon Town Council news, rechecked today, for the Tavern Lane notice of 7 October and its site notice, the Remembrance Sunday notice, the Church Lane, Shottery notice, the Mop Fair notice with the district council’s Road Closure No. 38 Order, and the Runaway Mop notice, reread today, and the Christmas lights switch-on notice of 14 October.
• Stratford-upon-Avon Mop Fair 2026, Stratford-on-Avon District Council, published 28 September and reread today, for the council’s closure hours for both fairs and the Runaway Mop street list.
• Canal and River Trust notice for the towpath between Bishopton Lane bridge 63 and Timothy Road bridge 64, updated 25 September 2026, for the towpath closure and its March 2027 review.
• Warwickshire County Council temporary traffic orders, published 25 September 2026, the Stratford Observer bundle, for Grafton Lane at Bidford-on-Avon and Public Bridleway W25A at Bushwood, and for the Fenny Compton path modification order and its 6 November deadline.
• Warwickshire County Council temporary traffic orders, published 11 September 2026, the earlier Stratford-on-Avon bundle, for Public Footpath AL110’s alternative route.
• Warwickshire County Council temporary traffic orders dated 11 September 2026, the Warwick and Kenilworth bundle, for the earlier Watery Lane proposal at Sherbourne.
• Warwickshire County Council temporary traffic orders published 14 August 2026, for Footpath AL110 at Morton Bagot and the bridleway and footpath closures at Upper Lighthorne and Radway.
• Warwickshire County Council temporary traffic order for Main Street, Farnborough, made 1 October.
• Stratford-on-Avon District Council list of road closures for the Waterside Upmarket and Bidford market dates.
• Stratford-on-Avon District Council car park pages: car parks in Stratford-upon-Avon, Bridgeway multi-storey, Arden Street, Recreation Ground and Windsor Street for tariffs, space counts and the National Parking Platform.
• Stratford Park and Ride, Stratford-on-Avon District Council, updated 8 October and rechecked today, for bus fares, car park charges and service hours, and the Stagecoach park and ride timetable it links, for departure times.
• Stratford Mop Fair, our own report, for the October fair.
• South Warwickshire Local Plan, Publication draft, July 2026, Policy ID.4 and paragraphs 3.2.4 to 3.2.5, for the safeguarded bypass corridor and the Clopton Bridge capacity constraint.

Correction, 12 October 2026. Until today this page said park and ride buses ran every 15 minutes from 7.30am to 6.28pm. The timetable the council links, dated 29 August, runs weekday buses every 30 minutes and ends the dedicated weekday service in mid-afternoon in term time. The page also said the council’s park and ride page recorded the towpath closure; since 8 October it does not, though the Canal and River Trust confirms the towpath is still closed.

Correction, 9 September 2026. On 5 September this page said that six short closures from the August order bundle had finished, among them Elm Close at Ilmington. That was read from the expiry of the temporary order. Warwickshire’s own footway resurfacing programme still listed the Elm Close scheme as ongoing at the time, so the closure should not have been described as finished. The programme now marks it completed.

Correction, 19 September 2026. Until that day this page listed Watery Lane at Sherbourne in a table captioned as closures affecting Stratford-on-Avon district. Sherbourne is in Warwick district. The closure is on the A429 between Stratford and Warwick, so it stays on the page, labelled with the district it is actually in.

Roadworks change daily and event closures are added through the year. Check the live map before you travel, and confirm parking charges on the machine or the council’s own page. Sources rechecked 24 October 2026. Several things we could not confirm today. Warwickshire’s live roadworks map runs on one.network and needs a sign-in for its underlying data, so the closures above come from the statutory orders rather than from the map. Tavern Lane, Lighthorne Road at Kineton, Farnborough Road at Warmington, Featherbed Lane at Wilmcote, the B439 Bordon Hill resurfacing, Main Street at Farnborough and Walton Park Road at Wellesbourne have all passed their anticipated end dates with nothing published to confirm they have reopened. We did not recheck rail engineering works on this visit; on 20 October National Rail and Chiltern listed none on the Stratford line before November.

Correction, 28 October: our 24 October update said Collins Way in Alcester was marked completed. The county programme still lists it as ongoing, as the closures list on this page says.